Case Study: Alliant Technologies Switches to a Utility-Centric Infrastructure Management Model to Thrive in the Digital Economy

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Case Study: Alliant Technologies Switches to
a Utility-Centric Infrastructure Management
Model to Thrive in the Digital Economy
Bruce Flitcroft – CEO - Alliant Technologies
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DEVOPS – AGILE OPERATIONS

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Abstract
The future growth and success of today’s business is rooted in technologies which transform
product and service offerings that delight customers, and are delivered ahead of the
competition. To meet these requirements, IT needs to rapidly allocate infrastructure resources
and services—on an as-needed basis—while avoiding over-provisioning and wasted resources
and costs for unnecessary infrastructure. By treating resources as a utility, organizations can
deliver unique, tailored and rapid services to their users. These utility-centric consumption
models help deliver business-essential platforms for peak performance requirements, and lower
TCO by up to 20–30 percent to soften the blow of continuous change. Companies that adopt
their imagined, utility-centric model can enjoy an agile IT infrastructure that can quickly deliver
new applications and services in lockstep with the customer-focused priorities of the business.
In this session, Alliant Technologies will provide insights on how it has built a utility-centric
consumption model with CA Unified Infrastructure Management that powers growth for its
customers and some of the best known brands in the world.
Bruce
Flitcroft
Alliant Technologies,
CEO

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​Case Study: Alliant Technologies
Switches to a Utility-Centric
Infrastructure Management Model
to Thrive in the Digital Economy
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Would you build your own power utility?
100 years ago, before the electric utilities,
businesses had to build their own power
generation.
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Remember data center print rooms?
When the IT budget was 10-25% printing?

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Cloud computing introduced the
utility model to IT.
But so far, it only covers a small portion:
compute and storage.
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Benefits of cloud utility models
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Faster &
More Agile
Lower TCO NMP

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Apply that principle to everything
What if the rest of your IT
infrastructure was delivered as a utility?
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How do you define
your infrastructure
when your perimeter
is what you use
not what you own?
Who is responsible when there’s an issue?
• Administrators
• Cloud Vendors
• Service Providers
• Supply Chain Partners
• ITSM Applications
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Operating in silos
leads to limited
integration & event
correlation
DATA CENTER
NETWORK
HELPDESK
APP SUPPORTAPP DEV
CLOUD
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Focus on data insights, not data collection
Hybrid IT infrastructure as a service with
CA Technologies software fully embedded
1. PHYSICAL
2. DATA LINK
3. NETWORK
4. TRANSPORT
5. SESSION
6. PRESENTATION
7. APPLICATION
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Get an
integrated view
of your network
environment.
Layers 1-4 with full
access to a suite of
network &
application analytics
tools so you can
focus on true ITSM
management
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OSI LAYERS 1-4
Monitoring of IP & MAC addresses
Inventory all assets for addresses
Access control
Authentication (AAA)
IP address management
Syslog collection
Wireline analytics
Application flow analytics
SNMP equipment monitoring
Circuit traffic monitoring
Event creation
Event correlation
Ticket creation
Ticket escalation

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Add car

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Create a better security paradigm
With CA Unified Infrastructure Management
Multi-tenancy
Support
Integration &
Coverage
Security Strategy
Support
Share collaboration
tools, not data
Single tools to support
all CIs in a global
architecture
Minimize surface attack
area
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Thank you.
Comments or
questions?
www.allianttech.com
BruceFlitcroft
CEO
Alliant Technologies
bflitcroft@allianttech.com
973.775.4109
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